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9 people and wounded dozens of others Julie
Walker has more on that shooting in the

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city's Oregon District Mayor Dan Whaley
says the shooter Conor Betts who was

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quickly killed by police was wearing body
armor and carrying extra magazines for

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his A K style assault rifle if we did not
have police in the Oregon District and

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the thousands of people in the Oregon
District enjoying their Saturday evening what

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we could have had in the city at
the Reynolds says he had just left

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a bar with his cousin when the shooting
started high as he starts trying to run and

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I really have

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a cousin was I'm sorry one of the factors
how it was in the scene that people were

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actually calm. As he ran he says he was
yelling active shooter to warn people I'm

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Julie Walker Authorities say the shooter's
22 year old sister is one of the 9

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victims killed U.S.

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President Donald Trump has pledged the
total support of the federal government on

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the shootings on Sunday he ordered flags
at all government buildings to be flown at

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half staff for the next 5 days he told
reporters that hate has no place in the

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United States and he called the killings

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a mental health issue. Sudan's transitional
military council and coalition of

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protest leaders initialed

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a power sharing agreement on Sunday
that she factions will formally sign

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a constitutional declaration on August
17th this is the news demonstrators have

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continued to clash with police in Hong
Kong as the 2 month old protest movement

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showed no signs of easing
Sara Bassett reports.

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Clad in yellow helmets and black face masks
protesters squeezed out of the subway

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station and called swayed by the few people
directing traffic in all this holding

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up in the turnstiles surveillance cameras
at the station covered in black tape and

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on premise as protesters spilled out makeshift
barricades were also arrested in the

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area which hosts high end department stores
and upscale restaurants police say that

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will spray colored liquid on demonstrators
to distinguish them from other members

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of the public activists have cold for

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a citywide general strike on Monday protestors
believe China's government and Hong

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Kong chief executive carry that am I writing
the civil liberties promised when the

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former British colony was returned to
China in 1997 I'm sorry about this U.S.

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Secretary of defense Mark esper has slammed
China's destabilizing actions in the

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Indo-Pacific region during his 1st trip to
the region as for and Secretary of State

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Mike Pompei Oh pointed to Beijing's
militarization of islands in the South China

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Sea They also accused Beijing of promoting
state sponsored theft of other nations'

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intellectual property pump AOE said Sunday
the United States was not asking nations

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to choose between the United States and
China but allies have grown increasingly

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worried about rising tensions between
the economic rivals the U.S.

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Is welcoming

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a cease fire declared in it live province
in northwest Syria the last insurgent

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stronghold in the country since April
hundreds of civilians have been killed in the

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violence in northwest Syria
thousands more have fled

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a friendship. Venter has succeeded in
flying across the English Channel on

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a jet powered hoverboard Frankie's

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a pod of designed the device which took him
across the channel from France to about

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20 minutes and then you are just 50 percent
of the of the fly I So that has to have

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like 70 percent of fuel
so I said OK nice just

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a Christian of minutes and I we are arriving
in the Borders powered by 5 small jet

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engines Iranian state media says Iran has
seized another foreign tanker in the

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Persian Gulf it's at the tanker was carrying
700000 gallons of fuel adding that 7

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sailors had been detained

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a revolutionary guard corps commander is
quoted as saying its naval forces had

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seized

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a foreign tanker in the Persian Gulf that
was smuggling fuel for some Arab countries

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the UN food agency and Yemen's Huth the
rebels say they have reached an agreement

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to resume food deliveries to rebel controlled
parts of Yemen after suspending the

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aid in June

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a spokesman for the World Food Program
told the Associated Press the agreement is

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an important step I'm arisen Melton.

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We need to distribute our assets and we
need to have them in the region when the

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conflict starts. Anew

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U.S.

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Secretary of Defense is in Asia It's Monday
August 5th this is the away Asia I'm

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Jim Stephenson in Washington
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Asia Also ahead trade is becoming strained
in several parts of Asia the U.S.

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Sends

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a new ambassador to the United Nations to
stun Mongo those adopting pets and the

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future of space flight
it's all on today's V.O.A.

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Asia. Tour. U.S.

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Secretary of defense Mark Asper is crisscrossing
the Asia Pacific region on his 1st

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international trip as head of the Defense
Department the trip began as the U.S.

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Withdrew from

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a decade's old arms control pact with Russia
the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces

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Treaty that withdrawal means Washington and
Moscow are free to develop ground based

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missiles with a range of 502-5500
kilometers and that could be bad news for

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a country that has never even been in
a part of the pact China or V.O.A.

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Pentagon correspondent Carla Babbitt is
traveling with esper and explains why. New

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defense secretary Mark esper said he
wants to see American ground based

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intermediate range missiles in Asia
missiles that until Friday were prohibited

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Yes I would like to but maybe let's be
clear what I'm talking about conventional

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weapons the deployment
would strengthen the U.S.

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Position against

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a top military competitor China because
we've been talking about this for some time

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now and they yes I want to say that 80
percent plus of their inventory is kind of

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range system so it's

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a lot of that that should surprise
and that we would want to add like

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a big. Building experts
say that in the event of

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a conflict with China the more military
capabilities the United States already has

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in the Asia Pacific the better we need to
distribute our assets and we need to have

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them in the region when the conflict starts
the idea that we're going to spend like

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we did in the 1st go for weeks or months
you know sending large cargo aircraft and

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part of vessels across the ocean going to
conflict they'll never arrive as birds

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arrival Saturday in Australia came just 2
days after North Korea conducted its 3rd

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missile test in less than 2 weeks firing
what appeared to be short range ballistic

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missiles capable of reaching Seoul or Tokyo
the United States have those bases in

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Japan which would be in the flight pattern
of some of those rockets that are being

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tested and so this is

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a real deliberate threat esper downplayed
the threat Saturday telling reporters the

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situation with North Korea is still
far more stable than it was just

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a couple of years ago when pealing gang
conducted 17 missile tests including the

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test of an intercontinental ballistic
missile Carla Babb the only news Sydney

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Meanwhile Hong Kong protests
to do volved and violence for

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a 2nd consecutive night Sunday with
police firing tear gas to disperse

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demonstrators who threw
rocks and bricks at

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a police station hundreds of masked
demonstrators threw rocks and bricks smashing

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windows Police responded with tear gas
to drive back the crowd marches or to

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protest what the demonstrators see as
Beijing's growing control over Hong Kong the

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officially autonomous Chinese territory
in an ominous warning Sunday

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a major Chinese news outlet warned that
Beijing will not let the protests continue

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Asia continues I'm Jim Stevenson in
Washington Japan has removed South Korea from

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a list of its preferred trading
partners a major escalation in

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a trade dispute rooted in historical tensions
the move has far reaching impact says

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Vo ways William Gallo reports from Seoul
Japan's decision will make it harder for

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South Korea to buy

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a wide range of sensitive Japanese products
that could have military uses last

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month Japan restricted exports if I take
materials to South Korea taken together

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the moves represent

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a serious threat to South Korea's economy
Japan's moves are widely seen as

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retaliation for recent South Korean court
rulings ordering Japanese companies to

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compensate Koreans who were forced to work
during Japan's colonial occupation of

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Korea. South Korean president moon Jane
called the Japanese move selfish and

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a grave challenge to Korea Japan relations

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a trade war between Japan and South Korea
could threaten global technology supply

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chains but South Korea produces 70 percent
of the world's memory chips the move

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could also hamper U.S.

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Efforts to present

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a unified front to challenges like North
Korea and China. The trade dispute has

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prompted a public backlash in South
Korea with customers boycotting

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a wide range of Japanese products Bill
Gallo the way News Seoul simmering trade

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tensions between the United States and
India have heated up as Washington presses

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India to lower tariffs and give
more access to its market the U.S.

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Has scrapped trade privileges that allow
imports of over $6000000000.00 worth of

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goods from India with
lower or 0 duties under

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a program known as the generalized system
of preferences Anjan oppressor each of

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visited one of the
beneficiaries of the J.S.P.

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Program on the outskirts of New Delhi to
see how businesses have been affected by

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the trade dispute since it began exporting
leather gloves more than 3 decades ago

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business has boom dead this leather goods
factory in 40. Alpine about those has

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diversified into Access cities such as
handbags belts and jackets some inspired by

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Indian craft many of them are destined
for top brands in the United States but

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Sanjay leaker fears that his family all
business could be hit after the U.S.

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Scrapped concessional Tardif for these
products buyers will want him to lower

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prices to compensate for the hired duties
it's not easy because the margins are

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never really being belted to handle an
additional 40 percent reduction in cost.

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In case these we are not able to big that
actions and in case the customers are not

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able to absorb the can be used

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a lot it cos it would only mean that the
business school shift to some countries

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which has 10 majority the D.S.P.

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Benefits that it may not be good news for
the $1000.00 plus workers busy putting

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together bags and other goods here.
And also business obviously means

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a loss of jobs and loss of livelihood
to the many people that just feel like

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us employ. So it is it is

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a situation of riches which is what I think
New Delhi has retaliated to the U.S.

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Move by raising doubt of sun American
imports such as apples and one.

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Export industry representatives say the
deepening trade spot is impacting labor

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intensive industries such as leather and
gems and jewellery for which the US was

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their biggest mock eat if Industrials will
produce the US market but that they've

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been given some of their market
on the really concerned parent of

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a stick market is an issue so
from that perspective I think for

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a very limited products like we me half
good looking to hold these companies can be

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met and can be given some kind of hang
Gordon so that they continue business that

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continue to provide employment in the
country that is the challenge facing

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companies like Alpine about alludes to
ensure that these handbags belts and jackets

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maintain their place in U.S. Stores
Anjan opposite each offer V.O.A.

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News for India. Happening now in

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Asia Thai authorities are casting
suspicion on Southern separatists while

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suggesting broader political motives for

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a series of bombings that
shook Bangkok during

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a summit of top diplomats from the United
States and China and the region blasts

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hit 5 locations across Bangkok injuring
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Away Asia Kentucky native Kelly
Knight craft will be the next U.S.

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Ambassador to the United Nations
after winning confirmation by

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a slim majority in the Senate this past
week some Democrats complained about her

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lack of foreign policy
experience going into

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a senior diplomatic post we wanted to
give you a sense of who is the new U.S.

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Ambassador to the U.N.
So if you always U.N.

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. Respondent Margaret Bashir
tells us more Kraft is

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a 3rd generation Kentucky and the
granddaughter of tobacco farmers and

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a former business woman
she and her husband Joe

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a billionaire coal executive are well known
in Republican circles as major donors

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having contributed to several Senate campaigns
and donating $1000000.00 to Trump's

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2016 presidential run Trump appointed her
as his envoy to Canada less than 2 years

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ago her tenure there was marked by the
negotiations for the new US Canada Mexico

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trade agreement other than that brief posting
she has no foreign policy experience

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a point Democratic senators seized on at
her June confirmation hearing so matter

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Ambassador let me be frank I have
deep reservations about your lack of

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qualifications for such a complex and
challenging role historically U.S.

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Ambassadors to the U.N.

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Have bought significant executive experience
or experience working directly in

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foreign policy Menendez also questioned
her extensive absences from her post in

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Canada more than half of her 608 days on
the job and I find the staggering amount

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of time away from posts very troubling
and an abdication of leadership despite

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criticism long time U.N. Observer
Richard gallant tells V.O.A.

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That craft can likely handle
the job crossed doesn't have

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a strong history and also not.
Because I'm so true peace and.

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I think expectations crossed

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a lot but actually she made. Friends
amongst us how much that you had

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issues whether it's working at least. One
of the UN's top priorities this slowing

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global warming craft has come under scrutiny
for her views on climate change her

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family has ties to the coal
industry and she once told

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a Canadian interviewer that she believes
both sides of the climate debate climate

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change needs to be addressed as it
poses real risk to our planet. Human

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behavior has contributed to the changing
climate let there be no doubt I will take

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this matter seriously and if confirmed I
will be an advocate for all countries to

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do their part in addressing climate change
as president craft replaces Nikki Haley

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who quit the post 7 months ago Haley held
Cabinet rank which craft will not and

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cultivated a high political profile
analysts say Kraft is likely to have

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a more limited role in alien setting U.S.
Born policy than Margaret Bashir V.O.A.

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the mango is indigenous to India and
Pakistan but the United States gets most of

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its supply from Central and South America
in fact it's hard to find Pakistani and

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Indian mangoes in the United States even
though the region produces nearly 40

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percent of the world's supply via ways how
he tried to find out why most mangoes in

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the U.S.

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Come from that in America fans of my use
any mangoes that come in all kinds of what

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I teach and flavors are always on the
lookout for their favorite kind Well Duncan

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and. Also when people hear that moved on
it's in the loop and Johnson has come in

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and they make reservations earlier but
they wait to hear when is the new mangoes

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will arrive with men who's from Pakistan
hard to find in the United States given

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though they are indigenous
to that country and

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a big. Part of the reason is that created
beads have only allowed data imports into

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the U.S.

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Since 2011 but the bigger problem
is due to. Expensive to import. 30

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percent 70 percent is framed
and repackaging we need

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a cheaper solution because
it's. One kilogram of mango.

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Producers and they use the cost. Of
facility for US Department of Agriculture

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and provides exporters with packaging and
distribution services working with the

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capacity issues so we've been able
to get the right numbers down

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a bit. The problem is that. In the
United States until they have undergone

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radiation treatment this Mississippi is one
of the places be it imported food is an

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idea to it. That requires to be
irradiated and it requires to be

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monitored by at this point
in time the. Choir that and.

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Any past such as primary. Flight
then in addition facilities in.

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Approved by U.S. Regulators
and doing that in the U.S.

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That is import costs but increases
their shelf life. Generally on

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Pakistani mangoes they have

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a very high brick or sugar can those have
attention to this ripen and swell faster

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so although in a lot of
different products we do get

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a rather long long shelf life extension
with Pakistani mangoes we tend to get $4.00

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to $5.00 days extra in the morning line
is that if you are buying sunny mango you

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to you have to pay about $2.00 to $3.00
times more than mangoes from other

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importers but for the
Maggie living in the U.S.

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That's one 3rd that's

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a little. News. This news

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from V.O.A.

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Asia Hong Kong marchers stage sometimes
violent protests on multiple fronts late

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Sunday introducing their latest tactic
to evade riot police and tear gas to

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demonstrations against

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a controversial extradition Bill enters
their 9th consecutive week you'll find all

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the big stories throughout the day on
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Now on V.O.A.

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Asia every year Americans adopt more than
3000000 cats and dogs most of these pets

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are adopted from animal shelters where
they were taken after being picked up

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a stray animals or given up by owners who
could no longer take care of them Kristen

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a sort of Janko and visited a
shelter in Los Angeles to get

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a look inside meet some of the animal
caretakers and understand the adoption

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process and rice narrates her story.

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It is really quiet in this animal shelter
in western Lothian jealous more than 200

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cats and dogs live on to the show to
his roof any time a dog gets lost or

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a cat gets lost and where the place where
people will bring the atoms to hopefully

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have them reunited with their owners or
and if for some reason an owner of people

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their animal this is where they were very
well every day more than 100 people can.

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I'm here looking for

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a pet to adopt they're met by volunteers
who feed walk and play with the animals on

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why serving lunch out here after I lost
my dog so I can ask the way and I still

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want to interact with dogs but it's a
lot of responsibility it wasn't so it's

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a visitor likes

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a certain dog or cat the shelter has special
rooms where people and pets can play

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and get to know each other we do what we
call adoption counseling and so we try to

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find out the person in the right style
and whether or not we have that they've

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selected it was for their lifestyle it was
shelters are not the only place where

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people can find a pet to adopt
every theory Sandiego holds

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a special animal expo where shelters and
animal rescue groups bring dogs and cats

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looking for a whole volunteers
bring animals to the west L.A.

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Animal shelter not just from the Los Angeles
area but from neighboring Mexico where

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the issue of stray dogs is

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a major one and this dog was brought to
California from Iran one of the places that

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tied to something and the country that
was damaged and he's 8 months old super

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social super sweet just

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a couple bags more than $120.00 animals get
adopted after such exposed to adopt an

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animal the new owner reins to
fill in a few forms and P.S.C.

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To cover the vaccinations and neutering.
Same guy and his sons came here to adopt

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one dog but are coming home with 2 instead
although she will be responsible for

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their care Sandra says she hopes that
adopting an animal will teach her children

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compassion and responsibility but we're
looking for one dog but since they're

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funded apparently decided to take both of
them together that she was. And I think

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that it worked out great because you know
we'll have 111 pup for each one more and

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more Americans are choosing adoption
over buying a pet because they know it's

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a win win they get a devoted
friend and the dog or cat gets

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a 2nd chance at life for Kristina said
chant in Los Angeles and the U.S.

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News the recent 50th anniversary of the
Apollo 11 moon landing celebrated the

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crowning achievement in crude spaceflight
but it also reminded the public that NASA

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or the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration is not currently sending

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astronauts into space from the United
States as view as Cain fair ball reports if

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everything goes according to NASA as planned
that's all about to change what looks

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like an unusual giant metal canister rising
high above the windy Alabama landscape

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has some familiar design
features though there's

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a lot of heritage shuttle technology here
but this is not intended to return the

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iconic fixed wing reusable space shuttle
into orbit it was retired in 2011 the last

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time NASA sent an astronaut
into space from the U.S.

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What is taking shape today at Nasa's
Marshall Space Flight Center is the core of

00:25:39
a new space launch system or S.L.S.

00:25:42
The place behind me is the liquid hydrogen
tank Mike Nichols is one of Nasa's lead

00:25:47
engineers testing new rocket technology in
order to prove that it is strong enough

00:25:52
to survive launch they build this test
article send it to us we install it in the

00:25:57
test and we do test which involves using
hydraulic cylinder is to apply loading to

00:26:02
it historian. Brian Odom says it's just one
piece of the larger space launch system

00:26:07
which will launch

00:26:08
a new Orion capsule into space so the
work you see in the background is for the

00:26:13
liquid oxygen the oxidizer for that S.L.S.

00:26:15
Vehicle to see if it's going to be able to
withstand those pressures those intense

00:26:19
dynamics at launch and so we're making sure
that our models are correct and so far

00:26:23
everything's looking good once testing of
these rocket stages is complete here at

00:26:27
the Marshall Space Flight Center the goal
isn't just to return astronauts to orbit

00:26:31
from Cape Canaveral there are
far greater goals in mind.

00:26:39
Space flight system is the
only rocket capable of sending

00:26:42
a fully equipped Ryan the astronaut the
supplies and the systems to the moon and

00:26:47
one launch in taking us to deep space the
flight center's director Jody singer

00:26:52
knows the clock is ticking in

00:26:53
a new space race this time with
the Chinese who also plan to land

00:26:58
a crew on the moon in the next decade I
applaud them why would be upset because the

00:27:03
Chinese are doing steps and they're very
very good at what they do astronaut Al

00:27:07
warden who highlighted the Endeavor
command module during the 1971 Apollo 15

00:27:12
mission to the moon believes NASA to its
partner with the Chinese what we need to

00:27:16
do is cooperate and do stuff with them
instead of looking at them arm's length and

00:27:20
being

00:27:21
a little standoffish about it because I
think they cooperate Program Mode be much

00:27:26
more efficient than the way it's going
right now right now private companies like

00:27:30
Boeing and Space X.

00:27:31
Are developing vehicles to take astronauts
into Earth orbit and the International

00:27:36
Space Station while Jodi singer says NASA
sites are set on new historic milestones

00:27:42
so we're all working very hard to land the
1st woman and the next man on the moon

00:27:47
by 2024 and take what we learned and do it
and apply it to future missions such as

00:27:53
missions to Mars the 1st new moon mission
in the Artemis program is tentatively

00:27:58
scheduled for next year without

00:28:00
a crew Artemis 2 plans to send Astro.
Around the moon in 2022 with Artemis 3

00:28:06
touching down on the lunar South Pole
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00:29:04
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00:29:27
to learning English

00:29:29
a daily 30 minute program from
the Voice of America I'm Musto

00:29:36
and I'm sure the Ghandi this program
is aimed at learners so he's

00:29:43
a little slower and we use words and phrases
especially written for people learning

00:29:50
English.

00:29:57
Today on the program you
will hear stories from on

00:30:01
a month tayo and ball Brian Lynn Ashley
Thompson and Katie Weaver But 1st

00:30:08
this report from Kelly
Gene Kelly. United States

00:30:14
officials have uncovered

00:30:16
a new way parents are abusing
the college admissions system

00:30:24
the University of Illinois
found that several parents

00:30:30
officially gave up responsibility
of their children the

00:30:36
move enabled the children to
receive financial aid to pay for

00:30:43
a college education but that
money is meant to help truly

00:30:49
needy students the case comes at

00:30:54
a time of intense discussion
about that fairness of college

00:31:01
admissions earlier this year U.S.

00:31:05
Officials found that some wealthy
parents paid bribes to get

00:31:12
their children into top university.
Investigative reporters

00:31:18
discovered the latest case
last month it was linked to

00:31:24
a small group of parents who
live outside Chicago Illinois

00:31:31
those parents gave up legal guardianship
of their children to friends and

00:31:38
relatives the children could then
claim they were independent of their

00:31:44
families and poorer than
they really were as

00:31:50
a result the students were permitted
to receive up to $11000.00

00:31:56
a year in education grants from the
government they could also receive the

00:32:03
university scholarships those scholarships
pay up to as much as the total

00:32:10
cost other the education. Some of the
parents who took part in this scheme

00:32:17
told reporters they were
following the advice of

00:32:21
a consulting business called
Destination college the company's

00:32:27
website says it helps parents pay
for college in the least costly

00:32:34
way possible destination college did
not choose to comment on the case

00:32:41
at the time the parents were caught
when some guidance counselors

00:32:48
at high schools near the University
of Illinois heard what was happening

00:32:54
the counselors told the school's
admissions office university

00:33:01
officials soon noticed that

00:33:04
a few applications looked
very similar the farm's all

00:33:10
came from students who lived in
the same area. They all claimed

00:33:17
the students had recently become
independent from their families

00:33:24
and they all used

00:33:26
a number of those same words in
total University of Illinois

00:33:32
officials identified about 14 of
these applications over the last

00:33:39
year Pro Publica

00:33:42
a nonprofit group found that students
involved in this scheme have also Ben

00:33:48
excepted at other colleges the
Associated Press says the

00:33:55
school's include the University of
Missouri the University of Wisconsin

00:34:02
and Indiana University all
3 schools said they are

00:34:08
investigating the issue. Andy
Borst is the director of

00:34:14
undergraduate admissions at the
University of Illinois he says

00:34:21
while the parents move appears to
be legal it is probably not right

00:34:29
by using money meant for poorer
students wealthier families take

00:34:35
away financial resources for
students who truly need help

00:34:43
for example the Illinois state
government gives aid only to the

00:34:49
1st people who apply the children of
wealthier families who took part in the

00:34:56
scheme received some of that aid
thousands of other students

00:35:03
were turned away financial aid
is not endless forced said

00:35:11
the government cannot give money
to every student who needs it Mark

00:35:17
Clare Oh is head of the independent
educational consultants Association

00:35:25
he says both the guardianship
scheme and the bribery case from

00:35:32
earlier in the year show the problem
of college tuition the cost

00:35:39
of higher education keeps going
up and up but he said the

00:35:45
parents who transferred
guardianship still acted unfairly

00:35:52
guardianship laws are designed for when
parents are unable or should not be

00:35:59
responsible for

00:36:00
a child's well being he said it isn't
something that is meant to be traded away in

00:36:07
order to beat the system. To help
make sure parents do not abuse the

00:36:14
system again the U.S.

00:36:16
Department of Education is being
urged to change its rules under one

00:36:23
proposal students would not be considered
independent if they continue receiving

00:36:30
medical and financial support from
their parents in addition the

00:36:37
University of Illinois is adding
new questions to its application

00:36:44
for example students who claim they
are independent are now asked Who

00:36:50
pays the cost of their cellphones
school officials have not

00:36:57
yet decided what to do about the families
who used the guardianship scheme

00:37:05
they may take away their university
scholarships but for now they must

00:37:11
continue to give government money to
students who can legally claim it

00:37:18
I'm Kelly Gene Kelly.

00:37:29
Now the V.O.A.

00:37:30
Learning English program
words and their stories.

00:37:38
Many animals live in and around
bodies of water take ducks for

00:37:45
example. Ducks the batter you can

00:37:52
often see them floating happily on the
surface of lakes creeks rivers and

00:37:58
ponds ducks swim effortlessly
in all kinds of weather

00:38:06
feathers protect them and other birds
against the cold. Ducks are great

00:38:12
hunters You can watch them diving down under
the water for food with their bottoms

00:38:19
and webbed feet sticking up in the
air ducks often live near water

00:38:26
this is where they mate and lay their
eggs so you could say that ducks

00:38:33
really no water in nature
they are water experts this

00:38:40
brings us to our 1st expression
to take to something like

00:38:45
a duck to water this means you are really
good at something without even trying

00:38:52
very hard it is not

00:38:55
a struggle for you at all it is almost
as if you were born to do it and

00:39:02
you really enjoy it for example
the 1st time the boy got on

00:39:07
a bicycle he rode surprisingly well
you could say he took to biking like

00:39:14
a duck to water when my friends told me
that she wanted to start rock climbing

00:39:21
I worried about her rock climbing can be

00:39:25
a difficult and even dangerous sport but
she has taken to rock climbing like

00:39:31
a duck to water now she's even competing
in rock climbing competitions

00:39:39
so that is our 1st duck and
water idiom the next one also

00:39:46
describes something easy with duck and
water when something is like water

00:39:53
off

00:39:53
a duck's back it is no big deal whatever
has happened has had no lasting

00:40:00
effect on the Duck or anyone else this
expression comes from the fact that

00:40:07
duck feathers are waterproof
they let water run off

00:40:11
a duck's body. The feathers are perfectly
designed because the birds spend so much

00:40:18
time in the water in English we use the
saying when talking about something that

00:40:25
has happened to someone but the person
doesn't seem to care they are not bothered

00:40:32
at all now the opposite of that expression
is to ruffle someone's feathers

00:40:40
This means that the person is really unhappy
about something just as ducks would be

00:40:46
if you ruffled or messed up their
waterproof feathers take my friend

00:40:53
Chuck for example you can say anything
to him and he will not get upset

00:40:59
nothing seems to ruffle his feathers
everything just rolls off of his back

00:41:07
a more formal way to say this is
Chuck maintains his composure if

00:41:13
you lose your composure you have let

00:41:16
a situation upset you or ruffle your
feathers now let's hear 2 friends

00:41:23
use some of these duck water
and feather expressions

00:41:31
so I've been hanging out with hope more
these days and I really like her yeah I

00:41:38
like hope too she's very easygoing exactly
things that would upset most people

00:41:44
just don't affect her at all
those things are like water off

00:41:49
a duck's back and that's such a
great personality trait I have

00:41:54
a couple of friends whose feathers are
easily ruffled if the littlest thing goes

00:42:00
wrong they get very upset such

00:42:03
a pain. Oh and another great thing
about hope she'll try anything

00:42:10
last weekend we went golfing together even
though she'd never been before and we

00:42:15
had so much fun isn't it difficult to
golf with someone who's never golf before

00:42:21
yeah usually but she took to the game like

00:42:24
a duck to water in fact she made shots
that took me months to learn Didn't that

00:42:31
ruffle your feathers you know the fact
that she was better than you not at all

00:42:38
for me anything that happens on
the golf courses like water off

00:42:42
a duck's back I just golf to
spend time outdoors and get

00:42:47
a little exercise and that brings us
to the end of this words and their

00:42:53
stories until next time I'm on I'm A Teo.

00:43:02
One of the world's biggest education
companies says it will release all of

00:43:09
its books for the United States
college market in digital form 1st

00:43:17
this breaks from traditional publishing
and from the more costly paper

00:43:23
versions of college textbooks Pearson

00:43:28
a British company provides textbooks
class materials and testing in

00:43:34
recent years changes in the U.S.

00:43:37
Market have hurt Pearson's sales
and profits as more students are

00:43:44
trying to save money by
buying used textbooks Pearson

00:43:51
sales have dropped each of the last 5
years thousands of people have lost

00:43:58
their jobs and the long time business
had to sell parts of the company

00:44:05
to rebuild. But now there is good
news for the company's business

00:44:12
earlier this year it said it was
offering less costly digital versions of

00:44:19
their text books The company
aims to see its sales grow in

00:44:25
2020 John Fallon Pearson's
chief executive told the

00:44:32
Reuters news agency I am increasingly
confident and excited about

00:44:38
this going forward all
future releases of its

00:44:44
$1500.00 current US titles will be digital

00:44:51
1st the company will update the books
whenever there are new developments

00:44:58
in the area of study most
printed textbooks are updated

00:45:05
every 3 years Pearson's current
e-books cost about $40.00

00:45:12
students can pay $79.00 for
extra learning tools connected

00:45:19
to the e-books printed
textbooks usually cost around

00:45:25
$110.00 but can cost as much as

00:45:31
$300.00 Pearson's leaders
believe the change to digital

00:45:38
1st will help the company have
more predictable earnings because

00:45:45
students may have less of

00:45:47
a reason to buy used books Pearson said 62

00:45:53
percent of its earnings now
comes from digital or digital

00:46:00
enabled products and services.
The move to digital will

00:46:07
also help the company cut costs
Fallon said the change gives

00:46:13
him the believe he can stabilize the U.S.

00:46:18
College business and start growing
his company's profits once

00:46:24
again on

00:46:27
a on ball. Major

00:46:39
demonstration in solar
sailing has been declared

00:46:43
a success by the organization
that launched the experiment the

00:46:50
U.S.

00:46:50
Based Planetary Society said this week
its Light Sail 2 spacecraft successfully

00:46:58
used sunlight to orbit Earth the
trip was the highest performing

00:47:05
solar sail demonstration
today solar sailing is

00:47:12
a method that can push a vehicle through
space a spacecraft is attached to

00:47:18
a solar sail to capture wind pressure
from sunlight light is made up

00:47:25
of particles called photons photons
themselves do not have any mass

00:47:33
but when they travel through space
they can create pressure as

00:47:38
a force for movement light sail to is

00:47:43
a small spacecraft that weighs
about 5 kilograms it was

00:47:49
designed by the Planetary Society

00:47:52
a not for profit group it
launched into orbit in June from

00:47:58
a rocket built by American
technology company Space X.

00:48:03
. This is

00:48:05
a very exciting day for us and for me
personally Planetary Society chief Bill

00:48:12
Nye said in an announcement about
the experiment this idea that

00:48:19
you could fly

00:48:20
a spacecraft with nothing but photons
is surprising and for me it's very

00:48:27
romantic that you could be
sailing on sunbeams the project

00:48:33
team said it had confirmed that sunlight
was responsible for moving the spacecraft

00:48:40
to an orbital high point of about
2 kilometers it was the 1st time

00:48:47
solar propulsion was successfully
demonstrated in Earth's orbit

00:48:54
but the technology has been
tested before in 2010 Japan's

00:49:00
Aerospace Exploration Agency launched

00:49:03
a spacecraft called us the agency used

00:49:09
a solar sail to propel the craft
past Venus and into orbit around the

00:49:15
Sun The Planetary Society
deployed its 1st solar sail in

00:49:22
2015 the light sail one
demonstration successfully released

00:49:29
a solar sail before re
entering Earth's atmosphere

00:49:33
a week later Light Sail 2 is

00:49:38
a 7 $1000000.00 project paid for by
Planetary Society members as well as

00:49:44
citizens who donated to

00:49:46
a special campaign the goal of Light
Sail 2 is to demonstrate that

00:49:53
solar sails can be used to propel
small satellites called Cube Sats

00:50:01
these small satellites can carry
scientific instruments like cameras.

00:50:07
Another main goal is to test the power of
sunlight to propel spacecraft without the

00:50:13
need for costly rocket fuel
Bill Nye said Light Sail to use

00:50:20
success could open the door to future
space travel possibilities using solar

00:50:27
sailing technology one trip could
include nice personal goal

00:50:34
using solar sails spacecraft to
carry supplies to Mars he said

00:50:41
future missions could also look for signs
of life and change the course of human

00:50:47
history NY added space exploration
brings out the best in

00:50:53
us I am Brian LAN.

00:51:11
On our national parks journey
we explore our remote island

00:51:17
near Michigan's border
with Canada it sits within

00:51:24
a huge freshwater lake it
is one of the least visited

00:51:30
national parks and America
welcome to Iowa Royal National

00:51:37
Park. IO Royal is
surrounded by the deep blue

00:51:43
waters of Lake Superior the
largest freshwater lake on

00:51:50
earth by area the park's quiet forests and

00:51:56
rocky shores offer

00:51:59
a kind of solitude and peace not found
and some of the more popular national

00:52:06
parks. No cars or other
wheeled vehicles are

00:52:13
permitted on Iola royal there
are no real roads on the island

00:52:20
the only way to get to the park is
by boat or sea plane the National

00:52:27
Park Service operates shuttle boats
that take visitors to Iowa royal

00:52:35
the boats leave from 2 Michigan
ports the journey to Iowa royal

00:52:42
takes 3 to 5 hours waters
are often extremely rough

00:52:49
IOW Royle is the largest of the
islands within the National Park it

00:52:56
is 72 kilometers long the entire national

00:53:03
park protects

00:53:05
a total area of 230000 hectares

00:53:11
including some $450.00 islands
that surround I over oil

00:53:18
$52000.00 hectares is
land the rest is water

00:53:25
aisle royal became

00:53:27
a national park in 1940 in 1000 A.D.

00:53:33
Officials named it an international
Biosphere Reserve because

00:53:40
of its unique ecosystem its
remote location is part of

00:53:47
what makes it among the least
visited national parks. But

00:53:54
once they arrive most visitors stay

00:53:58
a while the average staying for
visitors to Iowa Royal National Park

00:54:05
is $3.00 days the average stay
for visitors to most other

00:54:12
national parks is just 4
hours IOW royal offers

00:54:19
hiking camping boating
and even scuba diving

00:54:26
the extremely cold waters of Lake
Superior help keep shipwrecks in

00:54:33
excellent condition the National
Park Service protects 11

00:54:39
sunken boats for divers to
explore they are reminders of

00:54:46
Lake Superior Zz commercial
shipping history of

00:54:51
a sunken wooden ship called the America
is one of the most popular dive sites

00:54:59
the America carried passengers
mail and supplies to many

00:55:06
towns along the shores of Lake
Superior it 1st launched in

00:55:13
898 and was used until 1928 when

00:55:20
it was damaged it sank to the
bottom of the lake soon after

00:55:26
today divers can swim through the
ship's ballroom bedrooms and

00:55:33
engine room painted on the ship's
engine is an American flag

00:55:40
many divers take pictures of this
site. The Rock Harbor lighthouse

00:55:46
is another reminder of the area's
commercial history workers built

00:55:53
the lighthouse in the 1850s
to help guide ships safely to

00:56:00
the islands copper mines the
mining industry was short lived

00:56:07
however the lighthouse itself
lit the way for ships for just

00:56:13
24 years but it still stands today inside

00:56:20
exhibits and information help
visitors understand IO roils

00:56:27
maritime history

00:56:29
a short hiking trail leads visitors
to the lighthouse visitors to

00:56:36
Iowa royal share the trails with

00:56:39
a well studied population
of moose and wolves both

00:56:45
species migrated to the island
some time in the early to mid

00:56:51
1906 scientists believe that
moose swam to the island

00:56:59
they think Wolves walked there during

00:57:02
a free of the lake sometime in the 1940 S.

00:57:07
Scientists have closely studied the
relationship between IO Royal's wolves and

00:57:14
moves since the late 1950 S.

00:57:18
It is one of the best studied
predatory prey relationships in the

00:57:25
world researchers closely
record their population numbers

00:57:33
much of the research takes place during
the winter when the trees are bare.

00:57:40
The researchers fly over the
island to observe the animals from

00:57:46
a bath animal research is
the only winter activity

00:57:52
going on at Iowa royal The
National Park is closed each year

00:57:59
beginning in late October because
of the harsh weather conditions it

00:58:06
reopens and spring time the next
year. But for the other months

00:58:13
of

00:58:13
a year IO royal offers refreshing
Lake breezes green forests

00:58:20
and clear blue waters its
stunning scenery and unusual

00:58:27
solitude keep visitors returning
year after year I'm Ashley

00:58:34
Thompson and I'm Katie Weaver.

00:58:51
And that's our program for today listen
again tomorrow to learn English through

00:58:57
stories from around the world I'm
Pete Musto and I'm Dorothy Gundy.

00:59:26
This is the U.N.

00:59:26
News I'm arisen belt on. In less than 24
hours there have been 2 mass shootings in

00:59:32
the United States the 1st was in El Paso
Texas where police are investigating an

00:59:36
attack at a Wal-Mart at least 20 people
are dead and 26 are wounded people have

00:59:42
a rest of the alleged shooter. In Dayton
Ohio 9 people were killed and dozens more

00:59:47
injured in a shooting

00:59:48
a popular nightclub district just
hours after the attack in the past so

00:59:53
a piece Julie Walker has following
that story. Surveillance from

00:59:57
a shop near the scene captures the rapid
gunfire Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl

01:00:02
says they recovered 2 weapons but Betts
only used one of them an assault style

01:00:06
weapon he ordered online from Texas
but trained spurred to the suspect at

01:00:12
a local farms and dealer here
in this area there's also

01:00:17
a shotgun that was acquired from

01:00:18
a local farms dealer here they're
still investigating motive but

01:00:22
a ruling out one thing for now we have no
evidence to suggest that this there is

01:00:27
a bias motive in this crime bill says it's
still unclear whether Betts is younger

01:00:31
sister who he killed in

01:00:32
a companion that was injured were targeted
by him or if it was random I'm Julie

01:00:38
Walker U.S.

01:00:39
President Donald Trump has pledged the
total support of the federal government on

01:00:43
the shootings on Sunday he ordered flags
at all government buildings to be flown at

01:00:48
half staff for the next 5 days we
have from. Our 1st lady and myself

01:00:54
condolences to all. We have to get it stopped
has been going on for years and years

01:01:01
and years in our country we have to get it
stopped trying told reporters that hate

01:01:05
has no place in the United States in the
Philippines 3 ferry boats capsized in

01:01:11
rough seas killing at
least 31 people 3 others.

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